Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1887-04-07
BILL NYE TO HEN. NYE.
How to Make Country Paper Ac-
tuallY Red Hot.
From The Chfca0o Ns,n,

tuaily Red Hot.
From the Chicago Nstos,
AsHEvILLE, N. c., March 10. 1SsT.-MY
DEAR SON: | wish you would please
change the address OF my paper to this
place, where your mother and are now
staying. 1 got the Retina all right last
eek, and see that you are going to en-
large it, so | have sold my hay In order to
prepare for the event.
What is your idea for enlarging the pa
per before the town enlarges? or course
L am no journalist, but | have often
thought that if had been doomed to issue
a paper like the Retina, and then answer
at the bar OF judgment for it, would not
get power press till the town got q good
dark-blue book.and-ladder company and
post office.
l hope you will not try to issue a daily
paper, anyhow, till we see how stock looks
when grass grows again.
like your editorial on "Mark Antony"
first rate. L can imagine how excited tn Q
people OF your town we're when they sa W
the Retina Saturday morning and read
what your estimate Of Mark was.
| wish you would incidentally pick up
a few others of those old people and
weigh them. That is one of the Injuries
Of running a paper yourself. You can
speak right out and walk all over these
people. l would like to hear what your
honest convictions are in regard to
Diogenes. 1t would be worth almost what
bave put into your paper as silent
partner.
You can have no idea, Henry how it
swells me up with pride and lofty disdain
to know that while | am sleeping calmly
under my roof-tree. as l heard a man call
1t once, you are showing up those old
FIR no Mi 'na p 10 lot a n
Portcullis and Andronicus ana Mrs.
Potiphar and other people who have be-
come historical.
While other people are frittering away
their time talking about highway tax and
boards OF health and all such stuff as that
you are making red-hot paper of to-day,
A paper that fairly bOils over with your
honest convictions about the political
aspect at the time that Caesar took charge
of the tribune; a paper that shows the
average reader that you are smart.
whether you give them the kind of stuff
they, want or not.
That was my idea when l sent you
away to that female seminary. or what
ever it WAS, where you went 10 get edu-
Gated. | wanted you to COME out with
whole lot of thoughts that showed right
on their face that they were expensive.
| wanted you to be able to tell down at
n
each have to grind off a circular grind
stone four feet three and one-half inches
in diameter, with square hole In the
centre three and one-fourth inches each
way, provided A pays one-sixth of the
price of the stone, b one-half, and q the
balance, with the understanding that G
snail use per cent. more than his share,
provided he will turn the grindstone. j
wanted you to bs able TO talk with foreign
-. L..
darkest night that ever blew. | desired
that you might become a man who could
walk up TO an Italian as he plays his
organ voluntary beneath your case:
ment and tell him In his own musical
alarm-clock language what you think OF
him.
So it pleases me to know that you
are printing a paper now, so you can
show off to advantage what l have in
vested in you.
Press right on. Keep writing up these
overestimated men like Moses, and do
not care what you say provided you rise
rapidly yourself, even II you do SO upon
the wreck and ruin OF such men as
Demosthenes and other people whom you
will no doubt show up before you get
through.
l hope you will lead up to Column
bus and Patrick Henry In time to get
through with them little ahead Of the
sheriff.
After awhile 1 want to write little
article for your paper, not so much for
the purpose of saying anything. but in
order to show the contrast between the
polished work of a well-educated,
smart Young man and the crude efforts
of a plain man who is entirely I'M
fitted for everything except paternal pur-
poses.
We are having a good time here in the
South, enjoying the climate and making
experiments with the butter which is pro-
duced here.
As warm weather approaches the
mountain butter OF North Carolina ia get
ting its hair cut short, and | can truth
fully say, Henry that, although am no
epioure as a general rule, | have had my
palate tickled more since came here than
l ever did before.
Butter made in the Businesses of
the hills In Buncombe county is mostly
of pale pearl gray, with pin-stripe
in it of ultramarine. This does not
look badly, and 1T sets off hoecake first
rate.
This butter Is not eaten by the people
who manufacture 1t. They are poor some-
times, and have to eat most anything that
will sustain life, but they draw the line
at this butter.
They know how it is prepared.
Invent out into the brush last week to
buy a load of wood, and took tea with a
gentleman who lives in an open-face cot
tage on the other side of the mountains. L
then discovered that these people do not
eat their own butter.
did not notice any butter, but they
had gravy as q substitute for it. Corn
dodger In and Of itself will not melt In the
mouth, so 1 looked around for means Of
lubricating my own. AT that time the
warm-hearted and hospitable host made
the following remark:
"Stranger. you mustn't be squenmish.
just waller yer dodger In the dope. That's
the way we do"
then proceeded to waller.
BILL NYE.